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Changing Poverty Conference

May 29–30, 2008, University of Wisconsin–Madison

Continuing the seminal book series on poverty policy and research which includes Fighting Poverty (1986), Confronting Poverty (1994), and Understanding Poverty (2001), IRP is holding a small working conference on May 29–30, 2008, to discuss a new set of commissioned papers that consider trends and determinants of poverty and inequality, the evolution of poverty-related policy, and the consequences of poverty for families and children.

IRP Director Maria Cancian will coedit the book with Sheldon Danziger, codirector of the National Poverty Center, with financial support from the Office of the Assistant Secretary for Planning and Evaluation, U.S. Department of Health and Human Services.

Agenda

University of Wisconsin-Madison
May 29-30, 2008

Thursday, May 29

Poverty Levels and Trends in the US and the US in Comparative Perspective
Daniel R. Meyer and Geoffrey Wallace, University of Wisconsin-Madison
Discussant: Timothy Smeeding, Syracuse University
Economic Change and the Structure of Opportunity for Less-Skilled Workers
Rebecca Blank, University of Michigan
Discussant: Kerwin Charles, University of Chicago
Immigration and Poverty in the United States
Steven Raphael and Eugene Smolensky, University of California, Berkeley
Discussant: Cordelia Reimers, Hunter College-CUNY
Changes in Family Structure, Childbearing, and Employment: Implications for the Level and Trend in Poverty
Maria Cancian, University of Wisconsin-Madison, and Deborah Reed, Public Policy Institute of California
Discussant: Rebecca Maynard, University of Pennsylvania
Trends in Income Support
Robert Moffitt, Johns Hopkins University, John Karl Scholz, and Benjamin Cowan, University of Wisconsin-Madison
Discussant: Robert Plotnick, University of Washington
Health Care for the Poor: For Whom, What Care, and Whose Responsibility?
Katherine Swartz, Harvard University
Discussant: Barbara Wolfe, University of Wisconsin-Madison
Improving Educational Outcomes for Poor Children
Brian A. Jacob, University of Michigan, and Jens Ludwig, University of Chicago
Discussant: Helen Ladd, Duke University
Workforce Development as an Antipoverty Strategy: Up, Down . . . and Back Up?
Harry J. Holzer, Georgetown University
Discussant: Carolyn Heinrich, University of Wisconsin-Madison

Friday, May 30

The Role of Family Policies in Anti-Poverty Policy
Jane Waldfogel, Columbia University
Discussant: Sanders Korenman, Baruch College-CUNY
Enduring Influences of Childhood Poverty
Katherine Magnuson, University of Wisconsin-Madison, and Elizabeth Votruba-Drzal, University of Pittsburgh
Discussant: Elizabeth Oltmans Ananat, Duke University
Mobility in the U.S. and in Comparative Perspective
Markus Jäntti, Åbo Akademi University, Finland
Discussant: Steven Haider, Michigan State University
Poverty Politics and Policy
Mary Jo Bane, Harvard University
Discussant: Joseph Soss, University of Minnesota
What Does it Mean to be Poor in a Rich Society?
Robert Haveman, University of Wisconsin-Madison
Discussant
: Gary Burtless, Brookings Institution
Rapporteur Session
Overall Themes and Challenges for Poverty Research and Antipoverty Policies
Irwin Garfinkel, Columbia University, and Isabel Sawhill, Brookings Institution

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Last Updated: 12 May, 2008 by DD